Jim Turner lost its steam
A reader sent me an email about a steamboat wreck he couldn't remember the name of. I know of a few, and the one he was looking for was...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Feb 19
Long Lost Lafayette
This 1839 postal road map shows Lost Prairie, Lafayette Courthouse, and Conway connected via the Red River in Lafayette County (Miller...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Electric Electra
I took this photo of a two story building along Cleveland Street in Electra (Wichita county, Texas) a few years back. I always thought...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Promiscuous Peddling
In 1936, the city of Shreveport (Caddo Parish, Louisiana) erected a Farmers Market on Greenwood Road, modeled after a similar market in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Ward the Ville
The bank at Wardville where, in 1914, two men robbed it of currency and silver. Wardville, Atoka County, Oklahoma sits off the Jefferson...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Trail station
A cowboy from England has his photograph taken at Red River Station in the 1880s (University of Texas, Arlington). Red River Station in...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Learn that business
A 1908 ad inside the Draughons Business College catalog demonstrates that people who do not attend will have pick axes lodged in their...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Colony Mission
The remains of the dormitory. Colony, a little hamlet in Washita County, Oklahoma, began a long time ago as a Caddoan settlement. Then,...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Camp Howze
Opened in 1942 just northwest of Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, Camp Howze's purpose was to train infantry for activation during World...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
An early Bridge
A different view of Colbert's Hotel and Stage stand, as seen by a sketch artist for the Handbook of North Texas, published in 1886....
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Rare southwestern Arkansas
This hand-drawn map from 1864 appears to have come from the hand of a man named S.T. Risler, who served in Walker's Texas Division during...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Old Shed Road
The only extant depiction of Shed Road I've found, so far, comes from a 1926 article in the Bossier Banner Progress. Bossier City didn't...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Bad Bill
Bill Dalton of the infamous "Dalton Gang" was born in Missouri in 1865 and died near Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma in 1894. How'd that...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Writing smack
This signature is by Athanase De Mézières, who signed a letter, dated February 12, 1772, briefly describing his expedition to the...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Garland in Bowie
East of DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas and a few miles south of the Red River is the tiny community of Garland. Now consisting mostly of a...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jan 31
Rich Place
Bradley's Corner north of Burkburnett, Wichita County, Texas (DeGoyler Library, SMU) The "skyscrapers" on this photograph climbed into...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 5, 2022
Denison labor
Camp for National Guardsmen, called to Denison, Texas to quell potential violence during a railroad shopmen strike, at Forest Park near...
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Sep 5, 2022
Marcy and Black Beaver
Randolph B. Marcy, a West Point graduate and U.S. army captain/lieutenant from Pennsylvania, served much of his pre-Civil War career in...
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Wilhelmina Heloise
- Aug 1, 2022
Fur Trade in the Red River Valley
A description of the fur trade in Louisiana during the French colonial era.
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Robin Cole-Jett
- Jul 21, 2022
Massacre at Wichita Village
The "Historical Map of Clay County" by the Slagle Abstract Company shows an Old Cattle Trail meeting at the Little Washita in Clay...
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